E2B vs tama
E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.
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E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
E2B
tama
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- tama: $0.0117
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- tama: $0.0055
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- tama: Full VM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- tama:
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- tama: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
tamatama
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- E2B: $0.0504
- tama: $0.0117
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- E2B: $0.0162
- tama: $0.0055
- Storage
- E2B: Free
- tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
- Free tier
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- tama: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- E2B: $150 / month
- tama: Not listed
- Billing
- E2B: Per second
- tama: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- E2B: 24 hours
- tama: Not listed
- Idle stop
- E2B: Not listed
- tama: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- E2B: Up to 1,100
- tama: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- tama: Full VM
- GPU
- E2B: No
- tama:
- Snapshots
- E2B:
- tama:
- Pause and resume
- E2B:
- tama:
Developer
- SDKs
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- tama: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
- tama: Not listed
Trust
- License
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- tama: Not listed
- BYOC
- E2B: Enterprise plan
- tama: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
E2B
tama
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- E2B: $0.083
- tama: $0.023
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- E2B: $0.166
- tama: $0.045
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- E2B: $0.331
- tama: $0.091
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
E2B fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
tama fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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